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In Staffordshire, the highest rises were for public order offences - up 31.1 per cent from 2,992 to 4,345; bike thefts - up 26.7 per cent from 904 to 1,234; and robbery, which rose 23.1 per cent from 562 to 731.

The sharpest fall was in pick-pocketing, which fell 26.98 per cent from 546 to 430.

A dramatic change in domestic and non-domestic burglary figures was the result of a "reclassification".

Crimes formally known as non-domestic burglaries, such as from sheds, are now classed as domestic burglaries.

As a result, domestic burglaries appeared to rise 26.89 per cent in Derbyshire and 26.07 per cent in Staffordshire.

And there were apparent 41.42 per cent and 23.95 per cent falls in non-domestic burglaries in Derbyshire and Staffordshire, respectively.

Homicides rose 31.25 per cent in Derbyshire, but that only represented a rise of five incidents, from 11 to 16.

Derbyshire chief constable Peter Goodman said police were doing their best to meet "changing demand".

He said it was becoming more "challenging" due to funding cuts from central government.

Chief Constable Goodman said: "We have seen a rise in recorded crime in Derbyshire, and a rise in the more complex and hidden offences we deal with, such as domestic abuse, child sexual exploitation and modern slavery.

"We have aligned resources to meet this changing demand but this is challenging in light of funding cuts.

Peter Goodman, Derbyshire Constabulary chief constable

"This is one of the reasons Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa is proposing an increase in the council tax precept this year."

Nationally, the ONS found crime "continued to fall", but noted rises in knife and gun offences.

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Statisticians noted this year was the first when fraud could be compared - and showed a slight decline.

Mark Bangs, who is in charge of crime stats and analysis at the ONS, said: "These latest figures indicate that levels of crime have continued to fall compared with the previous year, but this picture varied across different types of crime and not all offence types showed falls.

"While overall levels of violent crime were not increasing, there was evidence of rises having occurred in some of the low-incidence but more harmful categories such as knife and gun crime.

"The first year-on-year comparisons from new estimates of fraud, one of the most frequently occurring crimes, indicate fewer incidents were experienced by the general population compared with the previous year."